Playbook Breakaway (The Rookie Hawkeyes #5)

SCOTTIE

The ceremony itself is a blur—Corey crying, his bride crying harder, the pastor making jokes about fishing season like it’s a universally understood calendar marker. I hear some of the words, but most of my focus is pointed directly at the woman next to me.

I keep catching myself glancing sideways at Katerina and thinking things a man in a fake marriage probably shouldn’t be thinking. Like how impossibly gorgeous she looks today. And how she somehow looks even more married than she did on our actual wedding day.

She holds herself with an effortless, elegant control that only comes from years of being trained to be perfect in public.